INTELLIGENCE
AS A SERVICE.

We build autonomous intelligence — research systems, decision engines, and agentic pipelines — for select clients.

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// INTELLIGENCE.AS.A.SERVICE
Institutional-grade intelligence. Delivered as a service.
// WHAT.WE.BUILD

Research systems that surface signal from noise. Decision engines that act at machine speed. Agentic pipelines that run continuously, autonomously, and at institutional scale.

// WHO.WE.BUILD.FOR

Organizations at the frontier of quantitative finance, applied AI, and enterprise intelligence. Our work is bespoke, confidential, and engineered to perform at the highest level.

// AGENTIC.ENGINEERING

Autonomous systems that research, decide, and act.

We design and deploy multi-agent pipelines that operate continuously — ingesting live data, forming structured conclusions, and executing decisions at defined parameters without human intervention.

// THE.FIRM

Agentic Engineering.
Quantitative Data Science.
Intelligence as a Service.

Founded in Montecito, California in 2008. Obsidian Quantitative is a boutique research and engineering firm delivering bespoke AI engineering and quantitative intelligence to a select group of institutional clients. Engagements are confidential by design.

// ESTABLISHED
2008
// BASED.IN
Montecito, California
// PRINCIPALS
2
// THE.PRINCIPALS
Alex Bernal
Founder · Senior AI & Data Scientist

Leads firm strategy, research architecture, and agentic systems design. Twenty years across quantitative finance, data science, and applied AI. MS Financial Engineering · MS Applied Data Science · CMT · CFTe.

Ben Balaj
Lead AI & Data Engineer

Designs and deploys the firm’s data pipelines, machine learning systems, and technical infrastructure. BS Finance · Bloomberg Certified · Alteryx · Python.

// WHAT.WE.DO
01
AGENTIC AI ENGINEERING
Multi-agent pipeline design, LLM orchestration, and autonomous workflow deployment. Built on Claude, LangChain, CrewAI, n8n, NVIDIA NIM, and the full Anthropic agentic ecosystem.
02
QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH
Systematic strategy development, signal engineering, factor models, and risk analytics. DSP-based trading systems, VaR, Monte Carlo, and options volatility analysis.
03
DATA SCIENCE & INTELLIGENCE
End-to-end data engineering, machine learning model development, and BI infrastructure. Alteryx, Azure Data Factory, AWS, Tableau, and enterprise analytics delivery.
// SECTORS.SERVED

Financial Markets  ·  Healthcare  ·  Energy  ·  Private Equity  ·  Capital Markets

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// TECHNOLOGY.STACK

Core capabilities.

// PRIMARY
ANTHROPIC
  • Claude Code
  • Claude for Work
  • Agentic Pipeline Engineering
  • Constitutional AI Systems
  • Anthropic API + Tool Use
NVIDIA
  • CUDA-X AI
  • NVIDIA NIM
  • NVIDIA AI Enterprise
  • TensorRT-LLM
  • NVIDIA Omniverse
// EXTENDED.CAPABILITIES
GOOGLE
  • Vertex AI
  • Gemini API
  • BigQuery ML
  • Google Cloud AI
  • TPU Infrastructure
MICROSOFT
  • Azure OpenAI
  • Copilot Studio
  • Azure ML
  • Cognitive Services
  • Q Business
AMAZON WEB SERVICES
  • AWS Bedrock
  • SageMaker
  • Rekognition
  • Comprehend
  • Q Business
// HOW.WE.ENGAGE
Boutique. Bespoke. Built to last.

Founded in Montecito, California, Obsidian Quantitative operates as a fully capable, institutional-grade research and engineering firm. Every engagement is structured as a focused partnership — bespoke AI engineering and quantitative intelligence, delivered with full confidentiality and precision.

// SELECT.ENGAGEMENTS

Select institutional clients across financial markets, healthcare,
energy, and private equity.
Client details available under NDA.

// INITIATE.CONTACT

Engagement inquiries only.

Serious inquiries only.

Inquiry received.